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We are superior to the joy we experience.
Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau
Age: 44 †
Born: 1817
Born: July 12
Died: 1862
Died: May 6
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There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.
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Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as if it were redeemed. When the desire to be better than we are is really sincere we are instantly elevated, and so far better already.
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The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.
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Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.
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